{"id":8275,"date":"2015-08-18T05:45:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T09:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2015-08-18T05:45:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T09:45:01","slug":"album-mini-review-chappo-future-former-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/18\/album-mini-review-chappo-future-former-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Chappo &#8212; Future Former Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/chappo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nFile next to: Edwin Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Tame Impala<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00U6WUGXS&amp;asins=B00U6WUGXS&amp;linkId=7VLMSBLQGFMNOXOA&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re the kind of person who loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/features\/steven_drozd_flaming_lips.shtml\"><strong>Flaming Lips<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; output circa <em>Clouds Taste Metallic<\/em> through <em>Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots<\/em>, but feel they subsequently went off the rails and\/or ran out of ideas, you&#8217;d do well to check out Chappo. With a sound at times reminiscent of <strong>Tame Impala<\/strong>, Chappo wraps pop melodies in arrangements that touch on synth-rock, psych, garage and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=178\"><strong>Apples in Stereo<\/strong><\/a> styled chirpy pop. Seemingly disparate left-field elements like trip-hop percussion and wide-eyed psych-folk vocals unexpectedly combine seamlessly with ambitious arrangements that suggest an indie-rock rethink of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=7036\"><strong>Jellyfish<\/strong><\/a>. Funky\/soulful guitars a la Beck are out front one moment, and the next thing you know, the melody&#8217;s floating on a pillowy synthesizer bed. <em>Future Former Self<\/em> is all over the musical map, but somehow it all works in a cohesive manner. If you want an album with a definable \u201csound,\u201d look elsewhere. For adventure, look here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Edwin Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Tame Impala If you\u2019re the kind of person who loved Flaming Lips&#8216; output circa Clouds Taste Metallic through Yoshimi Battles the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51],"tags":[492],"class_list":["post-8275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","tag-chappo","cat-49-id","cat-51-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}